Michigan In-State Tuition Residency Requirements

Key Takeaways

Michigan answers the residency question campus by campus, so the single most useful thing you can do is find out what your specific university requires before you change anything about your life.

• Michigan has no residency statute for public university tuition. Article VIII, sections 5 and 6 of the Michigan Constitution of 1963 give each governing board general supervision of its institution, and every board has written its own rule.
• At the University of Michigan, living in the state for a year does not help you. The Regents’ Guidelines list continuous physical presence of one year or more among the circumstances that do not demonstrate Michigan residence.
• A Michigan driver’s license, a voter registration and a Michigan tax return are all on the “does not demonstrate domicile” list at both the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. The generic residency checklist is built out of the wrong documents.
• At Central Michigan University, every U.S. resident pays in-state tuition no matter what state they call home, so a residency claim there is worth nothing. Resident and nonresident undergraduate tuition were both $15,420 in 2025-26.
• Three years at a Michigan high school plus graduation or a Michigan GED qualifies you for in-state tuition at every Michigan public university reviewed, with no citizenship and no legal residence required. The window to enroll is forty months at the University of Michigan and Michigan State, and twenty-eight months at Wayne State and Northern Michigan.
• You can be a Michigan resident for state financial aid and a nonresident for tuition in the same term at the same school, because the two tests use different evidence and different verifiers.
• Michigan has no appeal above the campus. The University of Michigan’s Appeal Committee decision ends the process, and the University conducts no further review.

Who Qualifies for In-State Tuition in Michigan?

In Michigan, you qualify for in-state tuition by satisfying the residency rule of the specific public university you attend, because each institution writes and applies its own. Every Michigan university reviewed recognises three broad doors: Michigan domicile, three years at a Michigan high school, and military or veteran service. Which door is open to you, and how wide it is, changes with the campus.

• 15Michigan public universities, each with its own rule
• 0Michigan statutes defining tuition residency
• 3Different durational standards at the three largest campuses
• $45,616Largest annual gap in the state, at Ann Arbor

The three words that decide Michigan cases

Domicile

Michigan State University defines domicile as your true, fixed, primary permanent residence and long-term home, the place you return to whenever you are away. Domicile is a single place. You cannot hold two at once.

Physical presence

Simply being in Michigan. Presence is necessary at some campuses and sufficient at none. Wayne State University counts six months of continuous physical presence, and then asks separately why you were here.

Dependent and non-dependent

Michigan State presumes you are dependent if you are 24 or younger, unmarried, not a veteran or on active duty, and primarily engaged in undergraduate study. Dependent students take their parents’ domicile. Non-dependent students must establish their own.

Michigan In-State Tuition Requirements in Detail

The Michigan requirements that matter are set out below in the order a residency officer applies them: how long, on whose authority, what intent means, and what enrolling in classes does to your claim.

How Long Do You Have to Live in Michigan to Get In-State Tuition?

There is no single answer, because Michigan sets no statewide minimum. The three largest public universities in Michigan apply three different standards, and all three are current law at their own institutions.

The University of Michigan is the outlier and the flagship. Its own Residency FAQ states plainly that there is no durational requirement to establish eligibility for in-state tuition. What matters is that you or your family have established a primary domicile in Michigan and severed out-of-state ties. Michigan State University takes the opposite approach: its regulations require a primary permanent residence and household in Michigan for at least twelve consecutive months immediately preceding the first day of classes of the semester in question. Wayne State University sits between them, requiring at least six months of continuous physical presence, completed before the first day of classes.

Who Decides Whether You Are a Michigan Resident?

Your university decides, and nobody above it reviews that decision. This is the single most important structural fact about Michigan residency, and it is the one competing guides most often get wrong by inventing a statewide rule that does not exist.

The Michigan Constitution of 1963 makes the boards of the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University corporate bodies with general supervision of their institutions. Article VIII, section 6 extends parallel authority to the boards of Michigan’s other public universities. Because tuition classification is an exercise of that supervision, it lives in board policy rather than in the Michigan Compiled Laws or the Michigan Administrative Code. The Legislature’s only regular lever is money: the enacted fiscal year 2026-27 budget conditions a one-time operations payment on universities limiting tuition increases to four percent or $651 per student, whichever is greater. It says nothing about who counts as a resident.

Why this matters for your file

It means advice about “Michigan’s rule” is close to meaningless. Ask your campus residency office for its own policy, read that document, and build to it. Michigan State publishes its regulations in the Academic Programs Catalog without a stated amendment date, so check the catalog for changes before a filing deadline rather than relying on a copy.

What “Intent to Make Michigan Your Home” Actually Means

In Michigan, intent means a reason for being in the state that has nothing to do with attending school, and the reason officers credit most is permanent, full-time employment. The University of Michigan’s Guidelines list only three circumstances that lend support to a residence claim, and all three are the same shape: both parents are permanent Michigan residents through permanent Michigan employment, a Michigan household and severance of out-of-state ties; or you hold a full-time permanent Michigan position that is the primary reason your family is here; or your spouse or partner does.

Michigan State University builds the same idea into a three-part test for dependent students. Both parents, or one parent where the parents are single, widowed, separated or divorced, must satisfy all three of Michigan domicile for twelve consecutive months, permanent Michigan employment, and severance of out-of-state ties tied to any principal residence outside Michigan. Wayne State University lists a comparable set of supporting circumstances, including a student who has accepted an offer of permanent Michigan employment, and adds severance of ties to the previous state as its own factor.

Can You Take Classes While Establishing Michigan Residency?

You can enroll, but at two of Michigan’s three largest universities enrolling can defeat the claim you are trying to build, so the credit load matters as much as the calendar.

Michigan State University offers non-dependent students two alternative routes after the twelve months of domicile: hold permanent Michigan employment that is the primary purpose of your presence, or take no academic courses at any two-year or four-year degree-granting institution, including Michigan State itself, during that twelve-month period. If you work full time, you can study. If you are not working, coursework closes the second route.

Wayne State University draws a sharper and more specific line. If you enroll for more than eight undergraduate credits, more than six graduate credits, or more than ten law credits in any one full-length semester within six months after arriving in Michigan, the University normally presumes you came to Michigan to attend school. The University of Michigan approaches the same problem differently, listing enrollment in a Michigan high school, community college or university among the circumstances that do not demonstrate permanent residence at all.

What Proof Do You Need for Michigan Residency?

Michigan’s public universities want documentary evidence of why you are in the state, and the strongest single combination is an employer letter on letterhead paired with a pay stub showing Michigan tax withheld. Identification documents carry far less weight than most applicants expect, and at the two largest universities several of them carry none.

• Employer letter on letterheadStrong
• Pay stub showing Michigan withholdingStrong
• Deed, land contract, mortgage or leaseStrong
• Proof the prior home was sold or the lease endedStrong
• Federal and state tax returns with W-2sSupporting
• Court guardianship order, divorce decreeSupporting
• Michigan driver’s license or State IDNot accepted alone
• Michigan voter registrationNot accepted alone
• Michigan income or property tax paymentNot accepted alone
• Signed statement of intent to be domiciledNot accepted alone
• Second home, vacation or investment propertyNot accepted alone
• Relatives other than parents living in MichiganNot accepted alone

What Carries Real Weight, and What Does Not

Six of the items above sit on published “does not demonstrate domicile” lists in Michigan, which is the opposite of what most residency advice tells people to collect. The University of Michigan’s Guidelines state that individuals whose claim rests solely on possessing a Michigan driver’s license or voter registration, on having paid Michigan income tax or filed Michigan resident returns, on owning property or paying Michigan property taxes, on having relatives other than parents in the state, or on signing a statement of intent, will generally not be found to be Michigan residents. Michigan State University’s regulations carry a near-identical list and add ownership of a vacation, second or investment home.

None of this means you should refuse to get a Michigan license. It means a license is a consequence of moving, not evidence of why you moved, and a file built out of consequences will not carry a clear and convincing burden.

Michigan Exceptions and Special Cases

Michigan’s exceptions are unusually generous on paper and unusually fragmented in practice, because each is administered by a different body under a different rule. This section states plainly where Michigan has a provision and where Michigan has none.

Military and veterans Stable

Michigan has no statewide military tuition statute. Coverage comes from federal law and from campus policy, and it is broader than the federal floor almost everywhere. Federal law at 38 U.S.C. § 3679(c), enacted as section 702 of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act and later expanded by the Isakson and Roe Act, requires public colleges to charge resident rates to covered veterans and dependents living in the state who use Chapter 30, 31, 33 or 35 benefits or the Fry Scholarship. Every Michigan institution reviewed honours that floor. Beyond it, the University of Michigan extends in-state tuition to reservists and to those discharged under general as well as honorable conditions, and to the spouse or dependent child of someone living or stationed in Michigan. Wayne State University goes further still, covering members of the National Guard of any state and defining a veteran as someone separated under conditions other than dishonorable after ninety consecutive days of active duty, or by reason of a disability incurred on active duty.

Dependent students, minors and split custody

Michigan treats a dependent student as taking their parents’ domicile, and the campuses diverge on what happens when the parents’ situations differ. At the University of Michigan, a dependent student whose parents are divorced and at least one of whom is a permanent Michigan resident is presumed to be a resident, provided the student can show both that Michigan is their permanent legal residence and that all out-of-state ties are severed. Michigan State requires documentation of separation or divorce and may ask for more where a parent has remarried or entered a new domestic partnership. Wayne State’s rules for minors turn on judicial custody awards, adoption, the parent with whom the minor actually lives, and a “natural guardian” such as a grandparent standing in the parents’ place where the minor has permanently left home and lost any reasonable expectation of parental support.

Michigan high school attendance, the widest door

The Michigan attendance path is the most powerful provision on this page and the least widely understood. Michigan State University grants in-state status to any student who attended an accredited Michigan high school for at least three years, graduated from one or earned a Michigan GED, and starts at MSU within forty months, and it does so regardless of whether the student is domiciled in Michigan, a Michigan resident, or a United States citizen. Wayne State University and Northern Michigan University apply the same test with a twenty-eight month window. The University of Michigan uses forty months but adds a requirement the others do not: two years at an accredited Michigan middle or junior high school immediately preceding high school.

Undocumented and DACA students

Undocumented and DACA students qualify for Michigan in-state tuition through the high school attendance path at every institution reviewed, because that path requires no citizenship and no legal residence. Washtenaw Community College and Oakland Community College both classify DACA recipients inside the resident tiers rather than as international students. The gap is on the aid side, not the tuition side: the Michigan Achievement Scholarship, the state’s largest program at a total fiscal year 2026-27 appropriation of $532 million, requires an applicant to be a Michigan resident and a United States citizen, permanent resident or approved status holder. A student can therefore hold in-state tuition at Michigan State and be ineligible for the state scholarship that in-state classmates receive.

Non-citizens on visas Stable

Michigan’s campuses disagree openly here, and the disagreement is worth money. The University of Michigan and Michigan State University both treat permanent residents, asylees and refugees as eligible, along with holders of A, E, G and I visas, and both state that holders of F, H, J, K, L, Parolee, TN and TD visas are not eligible for in-state tuition as Michigan residents. Wayne State University reaches a different conclusion, treating a non-citizen holding a current valid work visa and currently working in Michigan as able to apply in the same manner as a citizen, and listing A, E, G, H, I, L, R and TN among those visa types.

Tribal citizens and the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver Recently changed

The Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver was created by Public Act 174 of 1976 and is codified at MCL 390.1251 and following, with the blood quantum requirement at MCL 390.1252. To qualify you must be certified by your Tribal Enrollment Department as one quarter or more Native American blood quantum, be an enrolled citizen of a United States federally recognized Tribe, and be a legal resident of Michigan for not less than twelve consecutive months at the time of application. The state now verifies that twelve month residency largely through Secretary of State records, meaning a Michigan driver’s license, State ID or voter registration.

Employees, alumni, migrant families and children of veterans

Michigan carries several narrower provisions that no other state pairs in quite this way. Michigan State University grants in-state status to students employed full time by the university, to their spouses and dependents, and to graduate assistants during their appointments, and it recognises a migrant worker provision for students whose parent, guardian or self worked as a migrant agricultural worker in Michigan for at least two months a year in three of the last five years, or three months a year in two of the last five. Northern Michigan University grants in-state rates to holders of its own baccalaureate degrees. Separately, the Children of Veterans Tuition Grant Act, 2005 Public Act 248, provides up to $11,200 across eight semesters to the natural or adopted child of a qualifying Michigan veteran who is older than sixteen and under twenty-six, holds a 2.25 grade point average and has been a Michigan resident for the twelve months before applying.

Reciprocity: what Michigan does not have

Michigan participates in no multi-state tuition exchange program. Michigan is a member of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact but is not a member of the Midwest Student Exchange Program, whose participants are Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Because MSEP eligibility requires you to be a legal resident of a participating state, this cuts both ways: students coming to Michigan get no MSEP discount, and Michigan residents cannot use MSEP at an Ohio or Wisconsin campus either. What Michigan has instead is a set of institution-specific regional discounts.

• MSEP: not a participant
• WUE and WICHE: not a member
• Academic Common Market: not a member
• NEBHE Tuition Break: not a member
• Wayne State Great Lakes Policy: active
• Wayne State Good Neighbor Policy: active

Wayne State University’s Great Lakes Policy charges the Michigan resident rate plus ten percent to undergraduates from Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ontario. Its Good Neighbor Policy charges graduate students from Fulton, Lucas, Ottawa and Williams counties in Ohio, and from Ontario, the in-state rate outright. Wayne State also waives the out-state portion of tuition for students enrolled in fully online programs. Michigan has no statewide provision granting resident tuition on the basis of foster care status at any institution reviewed for this guide.

Community colleges: in Michigan, residency is a district question

If you are starting at a Michigan community college, the state line is not the boundary that decides your rate. Michigan community colleges classify students into four tiers: in-district, out-of-district, out-of-state and international. Washtenaw Community College requires six months of Michigan residence immediately before the semester for students whose previous residence was outside Michigan, and waives that six months for veterans and for military personnel transferred to Michigan along with dependents living with them. Oakland Community College’s district follows the Oakland Schools boundaries rather than county lines, reaching into Washtenaw, Livingston and Lapeer counties while excluding parts of Novi, Northville and Clarenceville and parts of the townships of Oakland, Addison, Rose, Holly and Groveland. Macomb Community College offers an affiliate rate, lower than the out-of-county rate, to residents of the Anchor Bay, Richmond, Armada and Romeo school districts and the southern Lapeer districts of Almont, Dryden and Imlay City, which sit outside any community college district.

Six Mistakes That Cost Michigan Students Resident Tuition

How to Establish Residency in Michigan Step by Step

Establishing Michigan residency is worth doing only at some campuses, so the first step is arithmetic rather than paperwork. Once you know the number, the process is the same everywhere: move for a reason other than school, document that reason, end the old state’s claim on you, and file on time.

1. Price the difference at your actual campus first

   Michigan’s nonresident premium ranges from the largest in the state to nothing at all, so the value of a residency claim is a campus-specific number rather than a Michigan number.

   At Ann Arbor the gap is $45,616 a year. At Michigan State it is $27,384. At Michigan Technological University it is $24,896, and at Grand Valley State University it is $6,716. At Central Michigan University it is zero, because every United States resident pays in-state tuition there regardless of home state. If your campus is on the zero list, stop here: there is nothing to claim. You can compare residency difficulty across all 50 states if you are still choosing where to apply.

2. Check whether a regional discount beats waiting

   If you live in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania or Ontario, Wayne State University’s Great Lakes Policy charges you the Michigan resident rate plus ten percent as an undergraduate, immediately, with no residency claim at all. Compare that against six months of waiting before you decide to establish domicile.

3. Move to Michigan for a reason other than school, and be able to name it

   The reason is the case. Permanent full-time Michigan employment, held by you, your spouse or partner, or your parents, is the reason Michigan officers credit most consistently, and every institutional policy reviewed builds its supporting-circumstances list around it.

4. Document the employment the way the policies ask for it

   Get a signed letter on company letterhead including a phone number, stating position, status and dates of employment, and a recent pay stub showing Michigan income tax withheld. Michigan State also asks for the employer’s physical work location, which matters if the company is headquartered elsewhere.

5. End the previous state’s claim on you

   Michigan calls this severance of out-of-state ties, and it wants proof of the ending, not just of the beginning. Michigan State asks for a warranty deed, a final closing or distribution statement, or proof that the out-of-state lease was terminated. A home you still own in another state is a live tie.

6. Watch your credit load during the qualifying period

   At Michigan State, a non-dependent student relying on the no-enrollment route must take no courses at any degree-granting institution for the full twelve months. At Wayne State, stay at or below eight undergraduate, six graduate or ten law credits in a full-length semester within six months of arriving.

7. File early, and file to your campus’s own deadline

   The University of Michigan recommends applying at least three months before the term and sets hard deadlines of September 30, January 31 and July 31 at 5:00 p.m. Michigan State wants the application and all documentation at least thirty days before the first day of classes and will not review an incomplete file. Wayne State uses September 30, January 31 and July 31, and applications after those dates are processed for the following semester.

What If You Are Denied? Michigan Appeals and Reclassification

In Michigan the appeal is decided inside the university, and at all three of the largest campuses the final word belongs to the institution itself. There is no state board, no coordinating agency and no administrative review above the campus, which makes the first filing unusually consequential.

• University of Michigan

  A written appeal must reach the Appeal Committee no later than the thirtieth calendar day following the date of the letter denying your request. The Committee is chaired by the Vice President and Secretary of the University and includes two other administrators, a faculty member and a student, with no Residency Classification Office staff among them. It does not meet with students, and appearances on behalf of students are not permitted. Its written decision concludes the appeal process for that term, and the University conducts no further review.

• Michigan State University

  A written statement with supporting documentation goes to the Out-of-State Fees Committee, which is chaired by the Vice Provost of Enrollment and Academic Strategic Planning and includes senior officers plus one undergraduate and one graduate student representative. The decision of the Out-of-State Fees Committee is final.

• Wayne State University, three rungs

  File a written notice of appeal with the Registrar within thirty days of being notified of the classification decision, including the reasons, the period claimed and a complete statement of facts with affidavits or documents. Failure to file within thirty days waives any right to further appeal. You may then appeal the Registrar’s decision to the Office of the General Counsel within fifteen days, and that office’s decision to the Office of the President within fifteen days. Each missed window is an express waiver. The President or a designee renders the final decision.

Reclassification, as opposed to appeal, is a fresh application for a later term. Michigan State grants in-state status only for entire semesters and never for part of one. Michigan Technological University applies the general Michigan rule that a student who enrols as a nonresident remains a nonresident throughout their attendance unless and until they are reclassified.

How Michigan Compares to Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin

Michigan is the odd one out among its neighbors: Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin each apply a single twelve month standard across their public institutions, while Michigan leaves the question to fifteen separate boards. The comparison below shows where that difference actually changes an outcome.

Scroll the table sideways to see all four states.

The fourth row is the sharpest practical difference on this page. The document that Wisconsin’s statute names as evidence of your intent is the same document Michigan’s flagship names as insufficient, which is why advice that travels well between Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin fails at the Michigan border. It is worth reading how Ohio’s statewide residency rule differs from Michigan’s campus-by-campus approach if you are weighing schools in both states, and the way Indiana applies its 12 month rule if you are comparing Big Ten campuses on cost.

Who Needs to Know Michigan’s Residency Rules?

Four groups run into Michigan’s campus-by-campus structure most often, and the structure means something different to each of them.

• The out-of-state family choosing a campus

  You are comparing Michigan universities from another state and trying to work out whether the sticker price is negotiable. In Michigan it is not negotiable so much as campus-dependent, and the spread between institutions is far wider than in neighboring states.

  Key Takeaway: price the nonresident premium at each specific campus before you plan anything, because at several Michigan universities it is zero.

• The relocating working parent

  You have taken a permanent job in Michigan and moved the household, and your child is starting or continuing at a Michigan public university. Your employment is the strongest evidence available under every policy reviewed.

  Key Takeaway: the employer letter on letterhead and the pay stub showing Michigan withholding are the file, and everything else supports them.

  Where it gets complicated: if the parents are divorced or separated, each Michigan campus applies a different presumption about whose household governs.

• The tribal citizen using the waiver

  You are an enrolled citizen of a federally recognized Tribe applying for the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver alongside admission to a Michigan public college or university. Two separate bodies will look at your residency, using two different standards.

  Key Takeaway: waiver certification and tuition classification are separate decisions, and you need both to go your way.

  Where it gets complicated: the state can certify twelve months of Michigan residence while your university finds no domicile, and the waiver then covers only the resident portion of the bill.

• The international professional working in Michigan

  You hold a work visa, you are employed in Michigan, and you or your spouse want to enroll at a Michigan public university. Your visa class, rather than your time in the state, will decide this for you.

  Key Takeaway: check the visa list in your specific campus’s policy before applying anywhere else.

  Where it gets complicated: the same visa qualifies at Wayne State and is categorically excluded at the University of Michigan and Michigan State.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources and How We Verified This Page

• August 4, 2026

  Full rewrite. The previous version of this page described a statewide twelve month Michigan domicile requirement. Michigan has no statewide residency rule, and the University of Michigan imposes no durational requirement at all, so that statement was incorrect and has been removed along with the guidance built on it. Campus-specific rules, deadlines, appeal paths and tuition figures verified against primary sources.

• July 8, 2026

  Added the enacted fiscal year 2026-27 higher education budget, including the tuition restraint condition of four percent or $651 per student and the $532 million Michigan Achievement Scholarship appropriation.

• June 25, 2026

  Noted the University of Michigan Regents’ approval of a 3.0 percent resident and 4.9 percent nonresident tuition increase for 2026-27. Confirmed 2025-26 figures retained until the full tables are published.

• September 26, 2025

  Page first published.

Methodology

Every rule statement on this page traces to the Michigan Constitution, a Michigan public act, a Michigan state agency, or the published residency policy of the institution that applies it. Where two Michigan institutions disagree, both positions are stated rather than averaged. Tuition figures are labeled with the academic year each institution has actually published, which is why the University of Michigan and Michigan State figures are 2025-26 and the Wayne State figures are 2026-27. Michigan’s 2025-2026 legislative session and the enacted fiscal year 2026-27 higher education budget were checked for changes to residency classification, and none were found. Comparable guides for other states are collected in our residency rules for all 50 states.

Sources

1. Michigan Constitution of 1963, article VIII, sections 5 and 6 (Tier 1, statute and constitution). Mich. Const. art. VIII § 5. Accessed August 4, 2026.
2. University of Michigan, Guidelines for Qualifying for In-state Tuition, and Residency FAQs, Office of the Registrar (Tier 3, institutional policy). ro.umich.edu residency guidelines and residency FAQs. Accessed August 4, 2026.
3. Michigan State University, Regulations for Qualifying for In-State Tuition, Office of the Registrar (Tier 3, institutional policy). reg.msu.edu residency regulations. Accessed August 4, 2026.
4. Wayne State University, Residency Regulations and Review Procedures, 2026-2027 Undergraduate Bulletin (Tier 3, institutional policy). bulletins.wayne.edu tuition and fees. Accessed August 4, 2026.
5. Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver, Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential; Public Act 174 of 1976, MCL 390.1251 et seq. (Tier 1 and 2). MITW program page. Accessed August 4, 2026.
6. Children of Veterans Tuition Grant Act, 2005 Public Act 248 (Tier 1, statute). 2005 PA 248. Accessed August 4, 2026.
7. Midwest Student Exchange Program, participating states, Midwestern Higher Education Compact (Tier 2). MSEP FAQ. Accessed August 4, 2026.
8. Michigan Association of State Universities, Report on Tuition and Fees 2025-2026 (Tier 3, institutional compilation). Source for resident and nonresident rates at Michigan Technological University, Grand Valley State University and Central Michigan University, and for the one-rate tuition structures at Eastern Michigan University, Ferris State University and Lake Superior State University. Accessed August 4, 2026.
9. University of Michigan Office of Undergraduate Admissions, 2025-26 tuition and fees (Tier 3). admissions.umich.edu costs. Accessed August 4, 2026.
10. Michigan State University Office of the Controller, resident and nonresident undergraduate tuition rates (Tier 3). controller.msu.edu tuition rates. Accessed August 4, 2026.
11. Ohio Administrative Code 3333-1-10, Ohio student residency for state subsidy and tuition surcharge purposes (Tier 2). Ohio Admin. Code 3333-1-10. Accessed August 4, 2026.
12. Wisconsin Statutes section 36.27(2), resident status for tuition purposes (Tier 1). Wis. Stat. § 36.27(2). Accessed August 4, 2026.
13. Washtenaw Community College Policy 2030 and Oakland Community College residency page (Tier 3, institutional policy). WCC Policy 2030 and OCC residency. Accessed August 4, 2026.

Reviewed for legal accuracy by Roger K. Neustadt, JD, Attorney, August 2026.